Notices by Giflian (giflian@techhub.social)

@3TomatoesShort how is it I didn't recognize him in season 1? A moustache doing a better job than Clark Kent's glasses

@thomasfuchs at least the oceangate guy had the balls to be inside the vehicle

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/top-stories-19khdp21z/-/a-EtgnpVkKQw6X5v7EPG5gnQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

Failing Betteridge's Law of Headlines. Of course they're designed to be addictive, they want you interacting for as long as possible so you pay for more and more tokens once they start charging

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/top-stories-19khdp21z/-/a-8lqjAbx5QqiAg4mzkEpV2A%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

The drop in heart disease we saw in the latter half of the 20th century turned out to be the people who survived the 1918 "Spanish" flu epidemic dying off, but this recent rise in heart problems in younger people is a complete mystery...

@skeletor Skeletor dropping the truths we need to hear

@Fragglemuppet Looks like nobody has written in regarding the accursed broccoflower? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoflower

@uxMark @Fragglemuppet I don't like broc on pizza, but I'm happy you do.

They're my favourite since childhood because they look like little trees.

@alwirtes @Nickiquote I have a personal theory that Trump is being coerced, as someone with advanced dementia can be. But that doesn't absolve him of guilt; if anything, dementia makes someone the worst version of themselves. Hence the magpie behaviour towards gold medals and trophies. He's just often being directed at where to be himself to/at.

(My theory isn't that strong, just based on things I've seen in other people.)

Unfortunately, it seems the concept of victim-is-still-bad-guy is too complex for the media to communicate, or just not catchy enough

@jnl He, a public figure and celebrity, wrote on his blog that AI critics are "neoliberal purity culture", after so many blog posts and interviews and speeches where he criticized AI. It was an about-face and an insult from an assumed ally against Big Tech. So he meant to rile people up and control the narrative. If you see the negative toots about him as proof of idolatry, his job is done.

I don't think we owe public figures the same grace we owe to other private citizens, but even if we did, it would've been nice if they extended the same grace to us.

One thing I like about mastodon is the ability to mute words, hashtags and users, if I'm bothered by the topic or behaviour.

@dyckron from Wikipedia "He then attended Humber College for two months before dropping out with no diploma."

Besides the old fashioned nonsense statement about basket weaving, he doesn't know the value of post-secondary education since he never experienced it.

@CatsOfYore my fluffy cat was similarly short-haired in the front and fluffy at the back, and it took over a year for the fluff to reach the front. He's 9 months in this photo

@CatsOfYore at one year the enfloofening was coming along but his front legs were still waiting

@MatWright it's been really strange over the last half year or so, watching American towns and businesses do ads and publicity trying to woo back Canadians. Most of the messaging fails to acknowledge the reasons we're staying away nor that the reasons are still there. Do they really not know?

15 years ago I had a job where I'd be talking to my teammates about our tech infrastructure or our databases and then one of them would respond with "that's what she said". And then the rest of the team (all men) would laugh, and everyone would forget what I just said, because it had become a sex joke.

It happened a lot. Luckily I was only there a year.

The result of this is that I haven't found "that's what she said" funny since 2009. If it's used in response to something I say nowadays, I just leave. Because it's being used to discredit and belittle me, even if the person pretends it isn't.

Lately I've been hearing people (men) use it more and more, and I don't know if it's the people I'm talking to or a shift in culture. Either way, I don't like it, even if it's not directed at me or another woman.

I ask that anyone who enjoys that phrase consider how they're using it, and see if they can come up with something similarly crude but non-gendered. Punch up.

Mr. Toebeans does not trust the Christmas decorations

That thing where someone photographs you when you're mid-meow and you end up looking really funny

Sando is 4 years old

@misty are you on hold or do they call you back?

Watching yesterday's Last Week Tonight and finally seeing John Oliver learn about the BC John Oliver who was premier over 100 years ago. I've been watching/listening to this comedian for maybe 20 years now but if I hear the name my mind first translates it as the high school on Fraser. Though we referred to it as "Jayo" in the olden times.

CNBC reporting what I've been saying for months: companies lying about replacing employees with AI in order to hide financial problems (or to make the move look good, at least) https://youtu.be/8g5img1hTes?si=NWWpvQ7sHrKMY8Bp